Navy to field a family of next-generation bomb
disposal robots.
by Magnuson, Stew
What the operators are seeing on the screen can also be improved,
said Roger Anderson, program manager at Autonomous Solutions Inc. His
company is in the first year of a three-year Navy development contract
to create 3-D like images.
The objective is to give the operator as much information about the
bomb as possible.
"In comparison to the manipulator or the robot arm, how far
away am I from this object?" Taking data from one camera, the
computer is already creating images that show more of the bomb than
operators can see now on their 2-D screens, he said.
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